Greetings,

The way you describe installing the Java Runtime Environment does not seem correct. If you are using an rpm - based system like fedora/mandrake/suse, java should be installed in /usr/java/jre-version number.

Please make sure you are installing java only from java.sun.com - any other source is not guaranteed to work with limewire. Gentoo in particular uses Blackdown which often has problems with limewire.

Please try that and let us know how it goes.